The only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world.
MALCOLM XSometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you’ll never know where you’ll get an idea from.
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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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All over this world people are standing up for freedom.
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If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
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Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you’re both engaged in the same business – you know they’re doing something that you aren’t.
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A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.
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A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can’t play the part of a wise man.
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The only thing power respects, is power.
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Some things are better done than said.
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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.
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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
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Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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If not now then when, if not me then who?
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You and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
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Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.
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You don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
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Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won’t let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
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Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth.
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And just because you have colleges and universities doesn’t mean you have education.
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The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
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I want to be remembered as someone who was sincere. Even if I made mistakes, they were made in sincerity. If I was wrong, I was wrong in sincerity.
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My sincerity is my credentials.
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Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again.
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History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
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The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.
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